Stray Leaves from a Note Book. 
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The birds are numerous, but I had 110 books on the birds 
of SomaHland during my stay. Some of the birds 1 was able 
to identify, but others were quite unknown to me, and those 
I can only describe as seen by the naked eye or field glass. 
First of all, as we rowed towards the shore, were the 
gulls. These were of two species as far as I could see, one 
species being the size of a small herring gull, with black beaks, 
white tail and underparts, and brownish-black neck and upper 
breast. 
Photo F. Dawson-Smith. 
Pelican. 
On a small sandbank were a number of terns, darker in 
appearance than our Arctic tern and not so pretty, but they had 
the same graceful, swallow-Hke flight, as they skimmed through 
the air. 
